Signal may be from first 'Exomoon'

Signal may be from first 'Exomoon'

Signal may be from first 'exomoon' By Paul Rincon
BBC News, Science & Environment, July 27, 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40741545

The paper is:

Teachey, A., D.M. Kipping, and A.R. Schmitt, 2017,
HEK VI: On the Dearth of Galilean Analogs in Kepler
and the Exomoon Candidate Kepler-1625b I
Submitted on 26 Jul 2017, arXiv:1707.08563 [astro-ph.EP]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08563

Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler
http://hek.astro.columbia.edu/

An article, totally unrelated to astronomy, that I
found interesting nevertheless is:

Who was she? A DNA Test Only Opened New Mysteries.
How Alice Collins Plebuch's foray into “recreational
genomics” upended a family tree. The Washington Post,
By Libby Copeland, July 27, 2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/lifestyle/she-thought-she-was-irish-until-a-dna-test-opened-a-100-year-old-mystery/

Yours,

Paul H.

New Asteroid Detected Only After It Passes 76,000 miles from Earth

New Asteroid Detected Only After It Passes 76,000 miles from Earth

Close shave from an undetected asteroid
By Eddie Irizarry in SPACE | July 25, 2017
http://earthsky.org/space/asteroid-2017-oo1-close-pass-undetected

Scientists spot a new asteroid the size of a passenger plane (but only three days After
it passed just 76,000 miles from Earth)
By Cheyenne McDonald, Daily Mail, July 27, 2017
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4737450/Phew-Scientists-spot-asteroid-flew-past-Earth.html

Related news article is:

Planetary defense campaign will use real asteroid for the first time, The University
of Arizona, July 28, 2017

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-planetary-defense-campaign-real-asteroid.html

http://tucson.com/news/science/university-of-arizona-to-lead-global-exercise-on-response-to/article_bc6fa864-366f-5ce1-9592-2ace77c430e1.html

https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/upcoming-asteroid-flyby-will-help-nasa-planetary-defense-network

Yours,

Paul H.

Warning: Counterfeit Solar-eclipse Glasses Being Sold

Warning: Counterfeit Solar-eclipse Glasses Being Sold

People, who are using eclipse glasses to view the upcoming eclipse, need to be careful about counterfeit eclipse glasses.

Solar-eclipse fever means counterfeit glasses are flooding Amazon’s market Quartz, by Elijah Wolfson, July 27, 2107
https://qz.com/1040159/solar-eclipse-glasses-for-sale-on-amazon-may-not-meet-nasa-safety-recommendations/

Are Eclipse Goggles a Scam?
They’re essential for anyone who wants a direct view of the solar action—but knockoffs are dangerous, NASA warns.
By Adreinne LaFrance, The Atlantic, July 20, 2017
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/07/are-eclipse-goggles-a-scam/534357/

Eclipse Eyeglass Safety: Don’t be Blindsided!
https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/safety

https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/safe_glasses_flyer.pdf

https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov

Yours,

Paul H.

Enormous Impact on Mars Could Have Created Mysterious Group of Asteroids

Enormous Impact on Mars Could Have Created Mysterious Group of Asteroids

Enormous Impact on Mars Could Have Created Mysterious Group of Asteroids. The Mars trojans
may show a giant impact in its past. Popular Mechanics
http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/news/a27319/enormous-asteroid-impact-mars-trojan-asteroids/

the paper is:

Polishook, D., S. A. Jacobson, A. Morbidelli and
O. Aharonson, 2017, A Martian origin for the Mars
Trojan asteroids Nature Astronomy 1, Article
number: 0179 (2017)
doi:10.1038/s41550-017-0179
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0179

Yours,

Paul H.

New Law Provides Legal Framework for Asteroid Mining

New Law Provides Legal Framework for Asteroid Mining

New law paves way for companies to mine asteroids
Mike Wehner, BGR July 16, 2017
http://bgr.com/2017/07/16/space-mining-asteroid-law/

Luxembourg is the First Nation to offer Legal Framework for
Space Resources Utilization. Space Resources.LU, July 13, 2017
http://www.spaceresources.public.lu/en/actualites/2017/Luxembourg-is-the-first-European-nation-to-offer-a-legal-framework-for-space-resources-utilization.html

Note: this may or may not be hype. I am not enough of a
lawyer to answer this question. So Caveat emptor on the
above articles

Yours,

Paul H.

A Few Quite Interesting 2017 Extended Conference Abstracts

A Few Quite Interesting 2017 Extended Conference Abstracts

Hi,

Below are some extended conference abstracts that I found quite interesting. Hopefully, there are some papers that are in preparation for publication to go with them.

Carling, P., Songtham, W., Tada, R., Tada, T. and Duangkrayon,
J., 2017, April. Effect of a Quaternary Meteoroid Impact in Indo-
China on the Surface Sedimentary Record. In EGU General
Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 19, p. 2337).
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/EGU2017-2337.pdf
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017EGUGA..19.2337C

Santa Catharina, A., Kneller, B.C., Charao Marques,
J., McArthur, A.D., Kane, I.A. and Silvestre Cevallos
Ferriz, S.R., 2017, Evidence for a second impactor at
the K-Pg Boundary in Baja California, Mexico. In EGU
General Assembly Conference Abstracts (Vol. 19, p. 19405).
http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2017/EGU2017-19405.pdf
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017EGUGA..1919405S

Wasson, J.T., 2017, March. A Thermal-Plume Origin of
Layered and Splash-Form Tektites and Libyan Desert
Glass. In Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (Vol. 48).
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings

Yours,

Paul H.

The Niagara Falls of Mars

The Niagara Falls of Mars

The Niagara Falls of Mars, NASA, MRO, June 28, 2017
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21763/the-niagara-falls-of-mars

Yours,

Paul H.

1847 Marion Meteorite Fall, Iowa

1847 Marion Meteorite Fall, Iowa

Old Gold: SUI began with a bang
Upcoming solar eclipse prompts UI archivist to revisit story of 1847 meteorite crash landing
David McCartney, Iowa Now, June 27,2017
https://now.uiowa.edu/2017/06/old-gold-sui-began-bang

Yours,

Paul H.

Why Morocco Loves its Meteorites (And Meteorite News From Sudan)

Why Morocco Loves its Meteorites (And Meteorite News From Sudan)

Why Morocco loves its meteorites
Why have more space rocks been recovered in Morocco than in other countries of a similar size?
It’s a great question for the world’s Asteroid Day
New Scientist, June 30, 2017

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2139323-why-morocco-loves-its-meteorites/

To save messages, an unrelated meteorite news article from Sudan is:

Scientists collect fresh meteorites fallen in Sudan’s White Nile State
Sudan Tribune, June 26, 2017
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article62834

Yours,
Paul H.

How Frogs Benefited From The Dinosaurs' Extinction

How Frogs Benefited From The Dinosaurs' Extinction


How Frogs Benefited From The Dinosaurs' Extinction
Facebook. The two-Way, NPR, July 3, 2017
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/03/535383841/how-frogs-benefited-from-the-dinosaurs-extinction

Extinction event that wiped out dinosaurs cleared way for frogs, Florida Museum of Natural History, July 3, 2017
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-extinction-event-dinosaurs-frogs.html

The paper is:

Yan-Jie Feng, David C. Blackburn, Dan Liang, David M. Hillis, David B. Wake, David C. Cannatella, and Peng Zhang, 2017, Phylogenomics reveals rapid, simultaneous diversification of three major clades of Gondwanan frogs at the Cretaceous –Paleogene boundary PNAS 2017 : 1704632114v1-201704632.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/06/26/1704632114

Yours,

Paul H.

New Paper About Asteroid Impact Hazards for Humans

New Paper About Asteroid Impact Hazards for Humans

If you die via asteroid, this is how it will happen
It’s incredibly unlikely. But what if?
by Brian Resnick July 3, 2017
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/3/15903154/asteroid-death-one-chart

The paper is;
Rumpf, C. M., H. G. Lewis, and P. M. Atkinson (2017), Asteroid impact effects and their
immediate hazards for human populations,
Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 3433–3440, doi:10.1002/2017GL073191.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2017GL073191/full

PDF file at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.07592.pdf

Yours,

Paul H.